New London mayor deplores attempts ‘to turn ethnic communities against each other’ during Zac Goldsmith’s campaign
Source: Sadiq Khan accuses PM of taking tactics ‘from Trump playbook’ | Politics | The Guardian
Sadiq Khan, the new Labour mayor of London, has launched an extraordinary attack on David Cameron and his defeated opponent, Zac Goldsmith, accusing them of trying to turn different ethnic communities against each other to stop him winning in the capital.
Writing in the Observer after becoming the most powerful Muslim politician in Europe, Khan says the prime minister and Goldsmith deployed tactics “straight out of the Donald Trump playbook” – a reference to the anti-Muslim campaign of the Republican hopeful in the US.
Khan wrested control of the capital from the Tories after eight years under Boris Johnson, in what turned out to be a comfortable win. He said he had hoped the campaign would focus on issues such as housing, transport and air pollution. “But David Cameron and Zac Goldsmith chose to set out to divide London’s communities in an attempt to win votes in some areas and suppress voters in other parts of the city,” he said.
The campaign was very negative, smearing him with the radical innuendo. Dirty stuff and actually truly ridiculous. Cameron in the Commons using PMQ with a planted question to slag Khan off. Typical piss-poor Cameron.
